Wolf People

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http://www.wolfpeople.co.uk/
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Wolf People biography
WOLF PEOPLE began in 2005, when singer/guitarist Jack SHARP recorded a demo album named after the children's book Little Jacko And The Wolf People. SHARP filled out the lineup with Tom WATT on drums, Joe HOLLICK on guitar and Dan DAVIES on bass. Their music is a blend of psychedelic and blues, combined with inflences of folk, jazz and krautrock. The band has been favorably compared to CREAM, TRAFFIC, JETHRO TULL, CAPTAIN BEEFHEART, CAN PENTANGLE and AMON DUUL II.
Wolf People official website

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Wolf People are an English psychedelic rock band based in London, Bedford and North Yorkshire. They formed in 2006 around the release of a very limited CD EP on Sea Records as part of the Lifeboat Series.  They then released three 7” singles on Battered Ornaments Records, they quickly sold out and are now becoming quite sought after. In fact, the 7″ vinyl “Cotton Strands” is taken from is completely out of print, so for now the digital version will have to suffice.
The band have been embraced by the psych community receiving great praise in Shindig magazine and Terrascope.com amongst others. Their influences include Captain Beefheart, Can, Pentangle, Dungen, Amon Duul II.  Wolf People’s music is largely blues rock based but incorporates elements of folk, jazz, kraut, and country.
You can find several more of the band’s tracks on their Soundcloud page-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

WOLF PEOPLE - TINY CIRCLE/MERCY II(45 from Battered Ornaments records)
 
Originally scheduled for a March release, but put back when work on the sleeve design by Luke Insect was delayed, in the immortal words of the Croz, this single ‘has been a long time comin’! 
But it’s surely been worth the wait. Since the release of that 5-track CD EP late last year, which gathered up the band’s best recordings thus far, it’s been a pleasure to witness Wolf People’s subsequent progress as a live act. All the promise of that EP has found full bloom on this magnificent single. 
As band leader Jack Sharp says: ‘the rhythm tracks we actually recorded in North London in the studio of a friend of ours, both tracks recorded in one day then overdubbed with guitars, flutes, vocals and harmonica at my house in Bedford and Joe’s place in Yorkshire. As normal the approach was to record everything we could think of, then whittle it down until we have something coherent. We’re very critical, there’s a lot of editing’.A recent entry on their myspace site suggests this is the first Wolf People proper record, as Sharp explains: ‘what I mean by the first proper ‘Wolf People’ release is that it’s the first record where the whole band have worked together on every stage of the thing. It’s naturally evolved away from being a band that plays their version of my studio recordings into a band that writes and records together, a real band in the traditional sense, and I think we’re running out of these’. With its insistent heavy guitar/flute riff ‘Tiny Circle’ will immediately transport you back a few decades and put some of you in mind of vintage Black Widow or those Mancunian sons of Tull, Gravy Train during their Vertigo period. It draws you instantly in. You can see why this is the top side – it has a certain catchy appeal, and in amongst all the Ross Harris’s tootie flootering there’s some fine toothsome guitar blasts from Jack Sharp, and Joe Holick whose playing particularly on slide just seems to get better and better.
However, it’s the flip, ‘Mercy II’ that carries the real lupine bite here – a dirty blues rave up with stuttering Magic Band rhythms (handled as ever with aplomb by Tom Watt, the group ‘s octopus-limbed drummer) and that tight driving beat that the band has made so much a part of its sound, this is a cracker – mysterious arcane lyrics, powerful bass guitar runs from Dan Davies and after the bridge, Sharp’s vocals get positively soulful especially when he repeatedly hollers ‘on this day’ as if his life depended upon it.
All in all this is pure dark, lycanthropic magic! Yet as was written in the annals of yore, this was how wolf people were playing then – but things change – don’t they? Flautist Harris is no longer a member of the band and as a four piece they’ve been coming along in leaps and bounds. I’ve staggered home from their shows more than once recently thinking we’ve finally found the true heirs to the early Man legacy! In September the band returns to Wales to the Dolwilym mansion grounds in Camarthenshire to record its first album –on this evidence, I’ve a feeling the best is yet to come.  (Nigel Cross)

Illuminatus! vs Atlas Shrugged

Illuminatus! vs Atlas Shrugged

As has been widely noted, the twenty-first century is strange, worrying and makes very little sense. Help is at hand, however, because the late twentieth century produced two huge novels which shed light on our current predicament. These two books are polar opposites, yet oddly similar - opposed twins, in other words, like Cain and Abel.

Both novels are ridiculously long. Both were largely ignored by the literary and educational establishments, due to their unmistakable whiff of madness (This fear of insanity is, of course, why the literary and educational establishments always miss out on all the good stuff.) They have both, however, found a devoted readership, been hailed as life changing, and have remained in print since publication. Between them, they explain much of our current twenty-first century world, from the underground anarchism of Anonymous and the shift from hierarchies to networks, to the Tea Party and neo-conservative hijack of American politics and the massive shift in wealth distribution towards the super rich.

These two books are, of course Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged and Robert Anton Wilson's Illuminatus! Trilogy (Co-written with Robert Shea, who I'm rudely leaving out of the picture in order to portray a false RAW/Rand dichotomy).

But - which is which? Fear not, the following guide will explain all:

Illuminatus!	Atlas Shrugged
Opening line:  “It was the year when they finally immanentized the Eschaton.”	Opening line:  “Who is John Galt?”
804 pages	1184 pages.
Superficially a sci-fi tinged mystery novel, but really the philosophy of Discordianism in fictional form.	Superficially a sci-fi tinged mystery novel, but really the philosophy of Objectivism in fictional form.
Views the world through the metaphor of the Greek Goddess Eris.	Views the world through the metaphor of the Greek Titan Atlas.
Has been known to turn previously sane readers into paranoid schizophrenics.	Has been known to turn previously sane readers into sociopaths.
Portrays hierarchical systems abstracted to the point of absurdity, although some readers find that absurdity plausible.	Portrays individual liberty abstracted to the point of absurdity, although some readers find that absurdity plausible.
Written by a sane man who believed he was insane.	Written by an insane woman who believed she was sane.
Portrays powerful men as utterly deluded about their influence on world history.	Portrays powerful men as utterly pivotal due to their influence on world history.
Characters who lack a sense of empathy and connection find sex devoid of meaning.	Characters who lack a sense of self-interest and purpose find sex devoid of meaning.
Author never makes things simple for his readers.	Author never makes things difficult for her readers.
Has the ability to make those who haven’t read it bemused.	Has the ability to make those who haven’t read it extremely angry.
Completely unfilmable.	Completely unfilmable (see the 2011 film Atlas Shrugged: Part 1 for more details)
Portrays the powerful elite in ways utterly removed from how the powerful elite actual act.	Portrays the proletariat in ways utterly removed from how the proletariat actual act.
Views government as dangerous and deluded.	Views government as dangerous and parasitical.
Author is so extreme that they were at one point accused of being an undercover CIA agent working to discredit conspiracy theories.	Author is so extreme that they were at one point accused of being a Soviet sleeper agent working to discredit capitalism.
At one point, a character fucks a giant apple.	No-one fucks any apples.
Considers an individual’s belief that their personal philosophy is the only true philosophy to be the cause of all the confusion, misery and problems in the world.	Considers the author’s personal philosophy to be the only true philosophy.
It is seemingly impossible to find anyone who knew the author who has a bad word to say about him.	*shudder*

ROBERT ANTON WILSON MEETS AYN RAND!

06.04.2012
03:32 pm

Topics:
Heroes
Kooks

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Ayn Rand
Robert Anton Wilson

Dangerous Minds pal Steven Otero hipped me to this…

From RAW’s Cosmic Trigger, Volume II, 2nd ed, -pp.133-134:

“The first new dogmatism I embraced after rejecting the Marxist BS (belief system) was Ayn Rand’s philosophy (not yet called Objectivism in those days.) _The Fountainhead_ had exactly the appeal for me that it has retained, decade after decade, with alienated adolescents of all ages. (The average youthful reader of _Thus Spake Zarathustra_ decides he is the Superman, and the average youthful Randroid decides she is an Alienated Super Genius.) LIke most Randroids, I went around for a few years mindlessly parroting all the the Rand dogma and imagining I was an ‘individualist.’

“Some years later, after becoming a published writer, I actually was invited to meet Ayn Rand once. (I was ‘summoned to the Presence,’ as Arlen said.) I confessed my doubts about certain Rand dogmas and was Cast Out Into the Darkness forever to wail and gnash my teeth in the Realm of Thud. It was weird. I thought the Trots and Catholic priests were dogmatic, but Ayn Rand made both groups look like models of tolerance by comparison.

“I thought she was a clinical paranoid. It was nearly 30 years later that I found out Rand was merely on Speed all the time, which creates an effect so much like paranoia that even trained clinicians cannot always tell the difference, and some even claim there is no difference.”

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SIGNS AND TOKENS

Masons may identify themselves through cryptic words or gestures that are too numerous to catalog completely. However, it may be helpful to know some basic ones. First, Masons usually identify themselves by shaking hands. A pressure with the thumb on the space between the second and third knuckle of the other person's hand usually is sufficient to identify oneself as a Master Mason.

When a handshake is not possible (as in a courtroom), a Mason might approach the bench by the:

"three upright regular steps...(stepping) off with your left foot one full step, and bringing the heel of your right to the hollow of your left foot; now step off with you right foot, and bring the heel of the left in the hollow of your right foot; then step off with your left foot, and bring both heels together."

It sounds complicated, by any Masonic officer has done it a thousand times, and can make it look as natural as can be.

Another way is through phrases, either simple or complex, depending on the circumstances. For example, a Masonic defendant in court may say "I was hoping to get a SQUARE deal, your honor," with just a shade of emphasis on the word, square. He could also say he is "on the LEVEL." These phrases are part of normal conversation, but with the right inflection, the other Mason understands.

The same lines could be used in bargaining for a deal on a car, or a home. Going to a jewelry store to buy gemstones, I would say to the manager, "I hear I can get a square deal here." He (if he didn't know me to be a Mason personally) might say, "I see that you are a traveling man."

I would reply, "I am. I travel from west to east and from east to west again."

He might ask, "Why did you leave the west and travel to the east?"

I would respond, "In search of that which was lost." That would do it. He would know I was a Master Mason, and I could usually get my gems for his cost! That may seem harmless in a minor business transaction, but imagine what would happen if this was done in a court of law! And it is being done, every day!

Another phrase (or gesture) which is only to be used in extreme situations is the Grand Masonic Hailing Sign of Distress.

Our Masonic defendant in court might bury his head in his hands at some point and cry, "Oh Lord, my God, is there no help for the widow's son?" Although this might sound a bit odd to the average listener, it could be understood as a cry of anguish. If a Masonic judge or juror heard it, they would be honor bound (by blood oath) to acquit such a person, or at least fight for a hung jury!

The gesture which accompanies this (or it can be given alone, if necessary) is for the person to raise his arms over his head (almost as in a "hands up" position) and then lowering them in three stages, pivoting the forearms at the elbow until they are perpendicular to the floor, palms down.

Any Mason, seeing that gesture, (or hearing the above words) would be oath bound to do anything possible to save the other Mason from danger, up to, but not including, the loss of his own life!

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